Food & Wine picks best new pastry chefs

A Baltimore pastry chef is the winner of Food & Wine magazine's People's Best New Pastry Chef award, and chefs from Chicago; New York; Austin, Texas; Lexington, Ky.; and San Francisco are the best new pastry chefs chosen by magazine editors.

The pastry chef of L'Etoile in Madison, Lindsay Greytak, had been one of the contenders for the people's award, selected via open, online voting.

The people's award winner is Chris Ford of Wit & Wisdom in Baltimore. Danica Pollard of Lidia's in Kansas City and Francis Ang of Fifth Floor in San Francisco were regional finalists.

The best new pastry chefs selected by editors are Bryce Caron of Blackbird in Chicago; Shawn Gawle of Corton in New York; Laura Sawicki of La Condesa, Austin; Stella Parks of Table 310, Lexington; and Devin McDavid of Quince and Cotogna in San Francisco.

About Carol Deptolla

Carol Deptolla is the Journal Sentinel dining critic. She also reports on restaurants, bars and other food- and drink-related businesses.